draft-besleaga-green-sustainability-header

The Sustainability HTTP Response Header Field

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This document defines the Sustainability HTTP response header field. This field provides a mechanism for servers to report the environmental impact and carbon footprint metrics associated with the processing and delivery of an HTTP request. By defining this header as a Structured Field, this specification ensures high parsing reliability and compatibility with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 header compression mechanisms, thereby mitigating the secondary environmental costs of transmitting the metadata itself.